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Talent Strategy: ‘It’s About Being Intentional’

Chief Executive

Many companies were caught off guard by Covid, by the need to scale down and then back up quickly, and by the mass resignations during and after the pandemic’s peak. And the already significant fixed costs of adding staff are only getting steeper. The way she knows it’s working? “We Verizon seems to be in the minority.

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Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

This is the essence of Groupon's declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon's profits before subtracting its subscriber-acquisition costs and stock option-based compensation.

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Exclusive: Jim Collins on ‘Thriving In Chaos’

Chief Executive

But they had this march, which was doubling components at affordable cost every 18 to 24 months, no matter what, like clockwork. It speaks to figuring out what that one key metric is that moves your business, and committing to it over and over. And if we do that, we can’t help but grow revenues per fixed cost.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

Despite metrics showing impressive overall company performance, the company’s capital deployment strategy was not maximizing shareholder dividends and/or buybacks. Activists look to see if opponents could be combined to form a more productive single entity, one that can capitalize on economies of scale and monopolize a given sector.